Limit bandwith during business hours?

Question

We run backups from remote servers to our location every night. We were having some issues with it taking up all the bandwith and limiting our other applications from functioning well. I set a hard limit with QOS to the backup server but would like to release the limit and let it use the full pipe after everybody goes home for the day? 
 I dont see a way to do that? possible?

BAlfson · Answer

Hi Tyler and welcome to the UTM Community! 
 The right place to regulate inbound traffic is at the source. Do you have UTMs at the remote sites? 
 It is possible to craft a cron job to accomplish this in the UTM but you will want to have Sophos Support "bless" your use of it: 
 At the command line as root, find the REF_ of the Download Throttling rule that you want to enable/disable. Say you've named it Backups: 
 cc get_object_by_name qos ingress_rule Backups|grep ref 
 Say that that returns REF_QosIngBackups. At the command line you can disable that with: 
 cc change_object REF_QosIngBackups status 0 
 To enable/disable the rule at 8AM/6PM, add the following lines to /etc/crontab: 
 0 8 * * * root /usr/local/bin/confd-client.plx change_object REF_QosIngBackups status 1 0 18 * * * root /usr/local/bin/confd-client.plx change_object REF_QosIngBackups status 0 
 Finally, to have those lines added to /etc/crontab-static, change the 'Firmware Download Interval' on the 'Configuration' tab of 'Management >> Up2Date', [Apply], change it back [Apply]. 
 Cheers - Bob