Can an iPad be backed up to two  Macs?

We recently upgraded my wife's iPad 2 to an iPad Air and I will inherit the old one. The old one was originally set up with my Apple ID so that is not a problem, and the new one is properly on my wife's Apple ID.
However, I have always used my 2010 iMac running 10.9.4 to back up the old iPad and that is fine. However I need to keep the iMac at 10.9.4 a little longer for other compatibility issues. I have a 2012 MacBook Pro happily running Yosemite so I thought it better to move the old iPad there so it can take advantage of Family Sharing. The MBP has plenty of disk space for backups but I wonder if I will induce any issues by connecting the iPad to the MBP without doing anything different with the files on the iMac or upgrading it to 10.10.
Thanks in advance,
AJ

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