Why is the iPad back up so huge?

This is something which has been puzzling me. Why is the iPad back up so huge. I have a 32 GB iPad with the following data - 11 GB Audio, 2 GB Video and 7 GB Apps. The back up is of nearly 6.5 GB. What is it for, what really gets stored there? And tomorrow if my iPad loses its data and my iTunes data also goes off, how far will the back up help?

I have like 2 GB music (that is music videos), 2 GB books (incl audio books), 4 GB apps (30 apps which make only 1 GB on the PC, the rest must come from in-app data I guess) and 30 GB movies on my iPad now. The backup today is only 1 GB. I think what makes the backup larger is the stored in-app data (if you have apps with much and growing data in them).

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