All software/programs reinstall it from a backup hard drive?

I just bought my wife a MacBook Pro computer refurbished GroupOn.  It was made in 2012.  She has an old computer MacBook 2008.  We did a full backup on an external hard drive.  All software/programs installed will be reinstall from this backup?  We discovered that iLife is not on the computer is restored to nine... apparently when they wiped the computer, everything is gone, but the basics that come with Mac OS Yosemite.  Please advise... Thank you

It depends on your backup, how you did and how you plan to restore.  Two computers running the same version of operating system?

Some simple applications can simply be dragged from drive to drive. Some install components in every sense, and only a clone will restore everything. The problem is a clone of a 2008 computer cannot boot a computer from 2012. A regular drag and drop saving is not a clone, or Time Machine.

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