Backup - 2000

I've got a distibutor server, 1 publishing server and 3 subscribing servers
all on SS 2000 SP4 with transactional immediate replication. What I want to
know is this: 1) what is the "best practices way" to back up the distributor
and 2) if the server melted down, what is order and procedures for doing
restores on the distributor server?
I guess you could script everything and use that as backups, right? But
that seems a little more scary for some reason to me...
Any information is much appreciated. And, of course, I don't mind reading
if you can send me to the right place!

There's plenty of info in BOL for this at "Strategies for Backing Up and
Restoring Transactional Replication"
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa237094(SQL.80).aspx.
Personally, what I tend to do is regularly script out replication, and if
the publisher/distributer server goes AWOL, I aim to reset it up from
scratch using a recent backup, apply my script (modified if the new server
name is different) then reinitialize.
Rgds,
Paul Ibison (www.replicationanswers.com)