scripts/functions: add a save/restore handler

Saving and restoring the steps requires saving/restoring multiple
directories. Depending on the configuration, some may not exist.

Add a wrapper that checks before creating/extracting the tarballs.

# Compute Alpha-specific values

CT_DoArchTupleValues () {

    # The architecture part of the tuple:

    CT_TARGET_ARCH="${CT_ARCH}${CT_ARCH_ALPHA_VARIANT}"

}