I want to bring one mac up to date with another

I have two macs in two different houses. One in a holiday home.
I use time capsule for my backups and take this with me when we are in the second home.
From reading various articles I understand that I need to use Migration assistant to transfer data from the Time Capsule to the second mac.
As the second mac is only six months behind the first a lot of the data will be the same.
Will using Migration assistant to transfer data duplicate the data already on the second mac when I try to bring it up to date.
I hope this is clear but if not can somebody help me and put me straight on this.
Thanks in advance
joshe.

Hi Linc.
Sorry for the delay in responding.
I am not quite following you.
If I create a new administrator account and then use Migration Assistant to transfer data from my first Mac using Time Capsule, will I not have to transfer all the data which will still give me the problem of duplication on the second Mac.
Perhaps I would be better off formatting the second Mac and then restoring from the Time Capsule which will be up to date.
Sorry to question your advice but hope you can help.
Thanks again.
joshe

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