Archive

n.	1.	The place in which public records or historic documents are kept. Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. - Gov. of Tongue.
	2.	Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family. Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. - Lamb.

Noun	1.	archive - a depository containing historical records and documents Synonyms: archives
Verb	1.	archive - put into an archive Synonyms: file away

1.	(file format)	archive - A single file containing one or (usually) more separate files plus information to allow them to be extracted (separated) by a suitable program. Archives are usually created for software distribution or backup. tar is a common format for Unix archives, and arc or PKZIP for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows.
2.	(operating system)	archive - To transfer files to slower, cheaper media (usually magnetic tape) to free the hard disk space they occupied. This is now normally done for long-term storage but in the 1960s, when disk was much more expensive, files were often shuffled regularly between disk and tape.
3.	(networking)	archive - archive site.

archives, collect, file away, pull in