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 IA-64-specific values

 CT_DoArchTupleValues() {

     # The architecture part of the tuple:

     CT_TARGET_ARCH="${CT_ARCH}"

 }