archive

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
archive /ˈɑːkʌɪv/

▶noun a collection of historical documents or records.

■ a complete record of the data in part or all of a computer system, stored on a less frequently used medium.

▶verb place or store in an archive.

– derivatives
archival adjective.

– origin C17: from Fr. archives (pl.), from L. archiva, archia, from Gk arkheia ‘public records’.