title: what exactly does "archive artifacts" step do in Jenkins?
body: <p>I have a Jenkins master server plus multiple slave machines that get created and destroyed all the time.</p>
  
  <p>I could not find any documentation on what exactly "archive artifacts" option does in a Jenkins job.</p>
  
  <p>does it copy artifacts from slave machine's workspace to some folder on  master server?</p>
  
  <p>or does it save files from the slave's workspace to the same slave's "archive" location? in this case if the slave server is destroyed, those files would be gone.</p>
  
  <p>if I delete the workspace, will those archived artifacts survive?</p>
  
  <p>if I delete builds history, will they survive?</p>
  
  <p>etc</p>