Restore my time machine data to another mac

I backed up my MBP on time machine, but need to restore it to my wife's mac while mine is being fixed. I have set up a user area on her MB. How do I restore my data from time machine to a her MB?
Thanks
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you can use Migration assistant (it's in Applications/Utilities) to do that.

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