If you are using 2 different NICs on the same physical server or two
physically different servers you can define your machine to the 3494 twice.
In this way, I would think the owner thing would be not required.  Just
CHECKOUT LIBVOLUME REMOVE=NO the ones from server A.  Do a checkout
libvolume of all on server B and then check them in STATUS=PRIVATE with a
new set of category codes.  You will need to have new category codes for the
new server.  What happens is the tapes that are not in the library are
ignored and will get marked "UNAVAILABLE" if they are attempted to be
mounted.  But what I would do in each server first thing is mark the tapes
belonging to the other server as "UNAVAILBLE" right off the bat with an
UPDATE VOLUME vvvvvv ACCESS=UNAVAILABLE any that are in a READONLY or
READWRITE state so they will not muck with each other's tapes.  OFFSITES are
not a problem at this time because they cannot be mounted anyway.

This is going to be tricky.  And, unless I actually tested it I would be
nervous there is something I did not consider.  Especially, the fact that
SERVER B is going to try to do stuff to the tapes immediately upon bringup.
But, this can probably be avoided if you mark all the tapes UNAVAILABLE
before you take the database backup.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon, INC
757-688-8180