IPhone 4s backup restoring on iPad 2?

I have a iPhone 4s,  I just purchased an iPad 2. Can I restore my iPhone backup to my iPad so I can play my games without losing any progress and have the sync between both devices?

I successfully restored the iPhone backup to the iPad but I did have a number of issues. But I was able to solve them
1.  The iOS on the iPhone was 5.1. The iPad was stil 5.01 so I had to upgrade that before I could do anything
2.  The iPhone was 64gb iPad 16gb. So the first few times it didn't take but it did on the third try. After the program data was transferred over. I had 8gb of "other data" before I even had any apps, music, or video on the iPad.  I figured out what apps were the ones that had all of their data on the iPad already without the app. I installed those apps and deleted the "other" data. Which gave me the use of the rest of the memory.
3.  The photo albums would not delete off of the iPad but after switching the photo directory to sync and then deleting them. Everything was fine.
4.  I had to disassociate the iPad with my computer for the app Documents to go. The computer got confused because the iPhone and iPad were the same device and it wouldn't work. 
A few bumps but all of my application data and game setting and progress is right.

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