Recovering /var/ and /usr using disk suite

Hello all:
How do I recover /var/ and /usr using disk suite. A snippet of metastat is below. Do I just issue a metareplace or metarecover?
Thanks for your help.
Ezra
d30: Mirror
Submirror 0: d31
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 20480121 blocks (9.8 GB)
d31: Submirror of d30
State: Okay
Size: 20480121 blocks (9.8 GB)
Stripe 0:
     Device Start Block Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare
     c1t0d0s3 0 No Okay Yes
d40: Mirror
Submirror 0: d41
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 20480121 blocks (9.8 GB)
d41: Submirror of d40
State: Okay
Size: 20480121 blocks (9.8 GB)
Stripe 0:
     Device Start Block Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare
     c1t0d0s4 0 No Okay Yes
d42: Concat/Stripe
Size: 20480121 blocks (9.8 GB)
Stripe 0:
     Device Start Block Dbase     Reloc
     c1t1d0s4 0 No      Yes
d32: Concat/Stripe
Size: 20480121 blocks (9.8 GB)
Stripe 0:
     Device Start Block Dbase     Reloc
     c1t1d0s3 0 No      Yes

Your snippet doesn't show anything wrong, so I can't understand why you're asking about recovery. Are you talking about fixing something or are you thinking of some failure scenario that hasn't happened yet? You also don't show any output as to what we're looking at. I'm assuming from your subject that /var and /usr are mounted on d30 and d40, but you might want to confirm that.
Also the output suggests that you've started setting up mirrors, but haven't done so. All the data is on c1t0 and nothing has been copied to c1t1 yet.
There's no redundant data shown here. So any failure in c1t0 will be fatal and unrecoverable from a SVM standpoint. You'd need to add the second half of the mirrors.
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