Best Recovery plan for MergeReplication

hi all,
i established merge replication between two servers with no synch option.i
dont have any idea of how to restore it original is it fails.how can i
restore both publisher and subscriber with out any data loss.what is the
recovery plan i have to use.
your help is appreciated
thanks
reddy
thanks paul,
my doubt is the replication is stopped without synchronising the data from
publisher to subscriber.the data is available at publisher and not in
subscriber.in this case which steps i have to follow.just i can take a backup
of publisher and restore it in the original and start connecting to
subscriber.is it works.please help
thanks
reddy
"Paul Ibison" wrote:

> Reddy,
> you can backup your publisher, distributor and
> subscribers. The recovery mode is not important in the
> sense that any one will work for replication, and the
> usual considerations apply - eg if you want a more
> granular backup strategy, full recovery mode and
> transaction log backups are used.
> After you restore a publisher's backup, depending on your
> situation, you might want to reinitialize or you may want
> to synchronize your publication database immediately with
> a subscription database that has the latest data, and
> attempt to recover any changes synchronized with that
> replica but not included in the most recent publication
> database backup of publication database transaction log
> backup.
> Assuming you haven't changed the replication
> configuration, you don't need to restore the distribution
> database to a consistent point in time.
> BTW BOL has a good section on this : Strategies for
> Backing Up and Restoring Merge Replication.
> HTH,
> Paul Ibison
> (recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
> http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
>
|||Reddy,
you mention that 'replication is stopped'. What error
message do you receive when you run the merge agent. This
is the crucial bit and it may not be necessary/helpful to
restore a backup.
Regards,
Paul Ibison
(recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)