While restoring an iPad iTunes asks for the password - which does it want; iTunes password or the one used to unlock the iPad normally?

I was having issues with my iPad so decided to do a complete wipe and restore.  The wipe went fine, but when I asked iTunes to do the restore it asks, "Enter the password to unlock your iPad backup"
I tried firstly entering the password I used to lock the iPad previously.  That did not work
I then tried the iTune password.  That did not work either.
Can it be there is another password for the back up of which I am unaware?
Is there a way to unlock the backup and restore it to the iPad?  Can the password be reset somehow?
What is the point of a backup that you cannot restore?

So, why is it not the passcode used to lock the iPad?  And why is the prompt not a little more specific, "Use the unique passcode for unlocking encrypted backups" might have been more helpful.  As it was I tried, in my desperation, to use not only a) the passcode with which I locked my iPad, but also b) my Apple ID password (also, I would have thought a reasonable option), c) my usual "master/default password" and d) the PREVIOUS password for the iPad... It was having none of it.
Curiously, having rebooted iTunes it now is performing a sync with the iPad (it did not even give me the option to do a restore) and this is even more confusing since the iTune screen shows the usage (25 GB free) along the bottom to be the same as my iPad BEFORE the wipe, but the pull down graphic (under the devices pull down menu) show 100% unused...
To be honest this takes me round in a circle, since my original problem was iTunes saying I had 25Gb free, but the pull down graphic displaying almost 100% full and the system saying it could not copy to the iPad as there was only 1.87GB free...

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