My device stopped working, so I bought a new one. I tried to restore my original setting via backupmenu, but that fails.

What is the best way to go about restoring apps, data and settings? Backupmenu is able to restore OptFS, but when I try to restore RootFS, it fails.

So far I am going to do it like this:
1) Install rootsh and ssh server via the device so I can ssh into it.
2) Install csthumb (via gui, as recommended).
3) Install all applications via apt-get (how do I get a list of applications from the backup images, is that possible?)
4) Connect the phone via USB via backupmenu and copy files that are different in my backup and the phone.

Am I missing anything? I will need to check if there are any differences in RootFS on the phone and in the backup, but that should do it, right?