Thanks Bhaskar. Will try this option once to see how it works. I have a question though. Lets say that the replication is running for 1 subscriber and I edit the publication property to reinitialize from backup.

Now while I take the backup, there will be new transactions originating from publisher. So will those be automatically applied to the subscriber when i restore the subscriber database from backup or do i need to do anything else

Thanks

Chandan