It was a hack that allowed you to open the CP and select from four options, members, cgi-bin, noncgi or a custom folder. Once you made that choice it would gunzip the files and download them from your noncgi folder. The last step was a delete button that would delete the backup file from the noncgi folder for you.
It was a great tool and even though it didn't work on all servers (no Windows) it was loved by one and all (almost).