Backup & Restoration Plan

Hi ,
We have two multi master setup, each having five instances and every instance is replicated between multi masters.For info we have one instance o=Netscaperoot while others o=abc,o=xyz...etc. I want to take daily online backup using db2bak.pl & db2ldif.pl -r .
My Query is :
- Is this backup procedure is sufficient .
- What is best method to restore using these backup.
- While restoring the backup do I have to disable the replication or we have to delete & create new RA between Masters.
Thanks in Advance,
Raj

i think db2ldif would be a better option than db2bak as the db2ak has certain limitations and its in binary format...and it is not required to disable the replication while restoring but its required tht you initialize the other master after restoring the primary master...
once this step is done..both the masters should be good to go..

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