v6.3.0

Added

• Skip media downloads for specific chats — New SKIP_MEDIA_CHAT_IDS environment variable to skip media downloads for selected chats while still backing up message text. Useful for high-volume media chats where you only need text content. Messages, reactions, and all other data are still fully backed up.
• Automatic media cleanup for skipped chats — When SKIP_MEDIA_DELETE_EXISTING is true (default), existing media files and database records are deleted for chats in the skip list, reclaiming disk space. Set to false to keep previously downloaded media while skipping future downloads.
• Per-chat media control in real-time listener — The listener now respects SKIP_MEDIA_CHAT_IDS, skipping media downloads for new incoming messages in skipped chats.

Fixed

• Freed-bytes reporting for deduplicated media — Media cleanup now correctly reports freed bytes: symlink removals (from deduplicated media) no longer inflate the freed storage count. Only actual file deletions count toward reclaimed space.
• Empty media directories cleaned up — After media cleanup, empty per-chat media directories are automatically removed.

Changed

• Media cleanup runs once per session — The cleanup check for skipped chats now uses a session-level cache, avoiding redundant database queries on subsequent backup cycles.

Contributors

• @Farzadd — Initial implementation of SKIP_MEDIA_CHAT_IDS (#74)

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