Setup transactional replication with pull subscription using the option @allow_initialize_from_backup

Question

I am trying to setup  transactional replication with pull subscription using the option @allow_initialize_from_backup = true and I am a bit confused on steps involved because at teh end of setup it shows ‘uninitialized subscriber’ in replication
monitor.
Publisher, distributor and subscriber are three separte SQL server 2008 R2 servers.
I executed below steps -
On publisher SQL server executed sp_addpublication with  options @immediate_sync ='true and   @allow_initialize_from_backup = true  
On publisher SQL server executed  sp_addarticle to add the articles
On distribution  SQL server disabled distribution cleanup agent and stopped the distribution cleanup job
On publisher SQL server created full backup of the publication db
On subscriber SQL server restored above backup with recovery
On publisher  executed  sp_addsubscription using options  @subscription_type = N'pull', and @sync_type = N'initialize with backup'
On subscriber  executed  sp_addpullsubscription  using options  @independent_agent = N'True',@subscription_type = N'pull',@description = N'',@update_mode = N'read only',@immediate_sync = 1
On distribution  SQL server enabled distribution cleanup agent and started the distribution cleanup job
At the end of these steps it shows ‘uninitialized subscriber’ in replication monitor.  What am I doing wrong ?
 In the above steps what is the difference between sp_addsubscription and sp_addpullsubscription ? 
When I setup transactional replication with push subscription using the option @allow_initialize_from_backup = true, I only execute sp_addsubscription on publisher.
Ravi Kumar

Answer 1

After the step 7 did you create the  "Pull Subscription Agent" by running the below stored procedure?
EXEC sp_addpullsubscription_agent
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms147834.aspx - Step 6
"(Optional) For a pull subscription, execute sp_addpullsubscription (Transact-SQL) and
sp_addpullsubscription_agent (Transact-SQL) at the Subscriber on the subscription database. For more information, see
Create a Pull Subscription."
Check this article for step by step with example-
http://www.sqlpassion.at/archive/2012/08/05/initialize-a-transactional-replication-from-a-database-backup/ The only thing in this article is it uses immediate_sync to be false, where as BOL says to keep it true when allow_initilize_from_backup is true.
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