New mac pro has not enough disk space to install from old mac pro

So, I bought the new shiny black cylinder Mac pro, but it comes with just 250gb flash memory, not enough to install the 600gb+ I have on my older MacPro hard drive. I backed up with time machine to my G-RAID, but during install it could not find the backup. (At least I think it couldn't. It said it found one on the G-Raid but that it was last backed up in 2010!) So I attached my older MacPro in terminal mode and tried to install from there. Not enough space to install my User folder. So now I am installing Applications only. This is going to be a major pain in the neck, I fear. Why did Apple do this to us? Don't they realize there have been folks like me who have bought just about every machine since the Apple II+ and have accumulated a ton of data? Sure, a 250gb flash memory drive is going to be faster and easier for Apple to manage, but why not give us a way to downsize without having to manually figure out what to do with our iphoto and macmail libraries? Has anyone else gone through this and come up with a good solution?

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