But be forewarned the backup does not backup everything.
1. Music, Video and Photos originally loaded via iTunes must be natively stored on your computer. If you have these only on the iPad and deleted off the computer since you first put them on the backup will not include this.
2. Obviously jailbroken apps must be transferred via iTunes via transfer purchases (assuming you are naughty and have done this
3. Cydia apps will not be backed-up, but Cydia should have record of what you had if you allowed Cydia "to make your life easier"
4. All manually loaded files loaded via jailbroken apps into your downloads folders (like movies in UlimVideos, or music via dTunes etc) are also not backup up.
Just a heads up