Restoring older phone backup to new phone

Please correct me if I'm wrong...
I've had blackberrys forever. About 50% of the time i got the latest phone becasue i damaged the previous one. I often did whole phone backups, but could never restore the backup to the new phone. I rarely got the chance to do the phone "switch/transfer" method. There's got to be a way to do this switch from the backup? In general all my email and contacts were from a BES server - so not a problem. -But media, apps, settings all had to be set or downloaded manually again.
Please tell me I've been missing something that exists.
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