This option in your Control Center allows you to compress directories and/or files located in your account. Many files become compressed into one archive file. This is an excellent way to backup your own files. Once you've compressed your files, you can FTP the archive file to your hard drive for safe keeping or simply leave it in your account. If you ever need to restore the compressed files, just return to this part of your Control Center and select the file that is compressed and click Extract.

Selecting files/folders to archive
When you select the Archive Manager tool, you will see a screen with instructions, and your directory structure. Here you can select individual files and/or whole folders to add to your archive. For example, to back up your entire document folder, you could select the 'domain-www' folder and everything in it and below will be included in the archive file.

Opening an archive on your Computer
Since the Linux operating system uses the GZIP compression protocol, the file will have an extension of filename.tar.gz. Once you copy the backup archive to your computer, If you are using Linux or Unix, using the 'tar' command will open the archive. The popular compression/decompression program WinZip will open GZIPped archive files on a PC.