My best guess would be you have a configuration file that is throwing the error. I have always found that a restore of data only ( pictures , documents et cettera) and a reconfigure of the new system file by file would be smoothest since in many cases each instal is somewhat different and the dependencies may get thrown off. Especially if your new system has some variant from your old (Packages, Distribution, Kernel) . I typically back up
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crontab -l> /home/joe/System-Logs/Config.bak/Crontab/"Current_Crontab--$(date +%F)"
cp -uv /etc/apt/sources.list /home/joe/System-Logs/Config.bak/Sources/"sources.list--$(date +%F)"
cp -uv /etc/bash.bashrc /home/joe/System-Logs/Config.bak/Bash/"bash.bashrc--$(date +%F)"
cp -uv /etc/samba/smb.conf /home/joe/System-Logs/Config.bak/Samba/"smb.conf--$(date +%F)"
cp -uv /etc/conky/conky.conf /home/joe/System-Logs/Config.bak/Conky/"conky.conf--$(date +%F)"
& separately
dd if=/dev/sda of=/home/joe/System-Logs/MBR/mbr-$(date +%F).txt count=1 bs=512 # In Roots cron job.
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Then install base system move over data manually to the desired directories and finally modify configuration.
If I was in your boat I would untar the data into a temp directory then move it around manually.