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by John Lockwood,★HelpfulMay 27, 2016 8:58 AM in response to clockworksupport
John Lockwood
May 27, 2016 8:58 AM
in response to clockworksupport
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Servers EnterpriseI don't believe so.
Perhaps you should consider setting up more than one Time Machine server and distributing users between them. It would probably be overkill but in theory you could have two or Macs connected to a SAN to share a storage pool and each then being a Time Machine server. I would probably use independent storage for each in this case though unless you already have a full-blown SAN system.
You could also consider bonding two or more network interfaces on the Mac mini to give it a faster network connection, or for more money there are now Thunderbolt to 10Gbps Ethernet adapters available.
Either 2 x 1Gbps = 2Gbps, or 1 x 10Gbps is clearly going to be able to support more network traffic and therefore more users than just the single built-in 1Gbps Ethernet port. You would need a network switch which also supports either 10Gbps Ethernet, or LACP aka. 802.3ad as the channel bonding standard depending on which approach you chose.
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May 26, 2016 5:40 PM in response to John Lockwoodby brycesteiner,Will having the 2 ethernet adapters cause client computers to be confused or can they switch between the two, and work without issues?
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by John Lockwood,★HelpfulMay 27, 2016 8:58 AM in response to brycesteiner
John Lockwood
May 27, 2016 8:58 AM
in response to brycesteiner
Level 6 (9,309 points)
Servers EnterpriseIf you combine two or more Ethernet ports e.g. the built-in plus a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter using 802.3ad aka. LACP as I mentioned then they function as one fast channel with a single IP address.
The client computers do not need to be changed and will not notice the difference except the server can do more traffic at the same time.
See OS X Yosemite: Combine Ethernet ports on how to do this.