Restoring backup to another user on another computer

The bad news, my trusty PowerBookG4 was stolen today. It had many years of work and projects for a PhD that I'm working on.
The good news, I've got time capsule and used it.
I also have a Mac mini that the family shares. We all have our own user accounts on it but I rarely used it since I had the laptop. I want to restore my backup from my G4 backup to this Mac mini, but only on MY account and not mess with the other accounts. Can this be done?
When Time machine does the backup, does it back up the whole computer or just the logged in account?
They don't have the same applications on each computer so will those be replaced too?
I didn't have the laptop set to require a login at startup. It was at home so I didn't think I needed to but they broke in and ransacked the place. I guess they will have access to all the emails that were local but I've changed the passwords on all accounts so that they won't get any more.
Thanks for any help and advice.

Ryner99 wrote:
The bad news, my trusty PowerBookG4 was stolen today. It had many years of work and projects for a PhD that I'm working on.
The good news, I've got time capsule and used it.
I also have a Mac mini that the family shares. We all have our own user accounts on it but I rarely used it since I had the laptop. I want to restore my backup from my G4 backup to this Mac mini, but only on MY account and not mess with the other accounts. Can this be done?
yes. use Migration Assistant (it's in /Applications/Utilities).
When Time machine does the backup, does it back up the whole computer or just the logged in account?
the whole computer.
They don't have the same applications on each computer so will those be replaced too?
Migration Assistant will give you an option whether or not to migrate Applications. I wouldn't migrate them.
I didn't have the laptop set to require a login at startup. It was at home so I didn't think I needed to but they broke in and ransacked the place. I guess they will have access to all the emails that were local but I've changed the passwords on all accounts so that they won't get any more.
Thanks for any help and advice.
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