a collection of historical documents or records of a government, a family, a place or an organization; the place where these records are stored

an electronic record of the data on a computer system, stored on a separate device for safety and security

<i>Optical media is perfect for storing archives of critical corporate data, such as financial records.</i>

to put or store a document or other material in an archive

to move information that is not often needed to a different disk, tape or other computer to store it

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