Rate limiting with "tc"?

Hi, all. My company has a reasonably large pipe to the Internet;
however, certain large transfers (e.g., our hourly database
replication with our offsite server) spike the usage. I'd like to
limit our traffic, both inbound and outbound, such that no single user
can use more than 50% of our bandwidth. I've poked around, and it
seems that the best way to accomplish this is by way of the "tc"
command... unfortunately, its documentation is, ummmm... "in depth."
While I'm willing to wade through it, and play with trial-and-error,
this is one of those times where I just want that one magic command,
and then I'll move on. So any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks much!

-Ken
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