BOULDER, August 15, 2000 - Exabyte Corporation (Nasdaq: EXBT - news), a performance leader in network backup systems, today announced that BakBone Software(TM) (OTC Pink Sheets: BKBOF; Toronto: BKB) has reported new benchmark performance levels on M2(TM) (Mammoth-2) tape drives and libraries. BakBone cited M2's speed and ease-of-use in both stand-alone and automation environments, and qualified the M2 products for its NetVault(TM) storage management software.

With both Fibre Channel and SCSI network configurations, M2 delivered a record-setting transfer rate that peaked at 50 MB/second. The M2/NetVault combination achieved a sustained transfer rate of 14 MB/second during backups with little or no compression. Restore speeds averaged 13 MB/second. All testing was performed at BakBone's SAN Interoperability Lab in San Diego.

M2 sustained the record transfer rate by using a Sun Microsystems Sparc E250 server running Solaris 7; Dot-Hill Fibre Channel SANnet RAID system; Compaq StorageWorks Fibre Channel SAN switch 16; Crossroads 4x50 router; and Antares LVD Ultra2 PCI host bus adapters, all running on NetVault storage management software. BakBone's testing simulated real-world situations by using one GB kernel files. BakBone also tested Exabyte's EZ17(TM) autoloader and X80 library.

``These numbers represent the clear conclusion that companies can combine impressive, high-performance data backup with incredible ease-of-use,'' said Jack Corrao, BakBone's president and chief operating officer. ``These benefits are of increasing importance to companies that must secure more corporate-critical data in a shorter time frame than ever before. Enterprise backup must be simply administered and accomplished in an absolute minimum of time with an absolute maximum of confidence in the process. The BakBone/Exabyte combination proves these objectives can be met running on today's LANs, and maximized as companies move toward SAN-centric configurations.''

``BakBone's M2 test results confirm that M2 is the technology to beat for high-performance backup and restore operations in complex Fibre Channel SAN environments,'' said Kathy Ingraham, software alliance manager at Exabyte. ``When used with M2 drives and libraries, NetVault offers end users blazingly fast performance as well as great ease-of-use and cross-platform support.''

BakBone was also impressed with M2's SmartClean(TM) technology as it supports NetVault's ease-of-use. M2 has added preventive maintenance features like SmartClean, the AME (Advanced Metal Evaporated) data cartridges with built-in cleaning media that enhance tape drive reliability. M2 automatically cleans itself without any prompting from an operator or administrator, thus reducing system down time and increasing head life to provide unmatched reliability.

About BakBone Software Inc.

BakBone Software (OTC Pink Sheets: BKBOF; Toronto: BKB) is an international storage management software company that develops and globally distributes industry-leading storage management solutions to the open systems markets, providing data protection and management solutions scalable from workgroup to enterprise that will grow with a company's needs.

BakBone's corporate headquarters is located at 10145 Pacific Heights Boulevard, San Diego, CA. 92121. Its stock is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and is included on the TSE 300 Composite, S&P/TSE Canadian SmallCap and TSE 200 indices. For more information on BakBone products, call 858-450-9009, e-mail sales@bakbone.com, or access BakBone's Web site at www.bakbone.com.

About Exabyte Corporation

Exabyte Corporation is a leading supplier of tape storage devices and network storage solutions for the data intensive application and database server markets. Exabyte engineers, manufactures and markets 8mm and MammothTape(TM) technology tape drives, premier storage media and libraries for MammothTape, DLTtape(TM) and LTO® (Ultrium®) tape technologies. NetStorM(TM), Exabyte's network storage initiative, is designed to optimize the performance capabilities of Exabyte's drives, autoloaders and libraries with other vendors' SAN offerings. The company's products are available exclusively through an extensive network of OEM, distributor and reseller business partners worldwide, all backed by the company's award-winning service and support.

For additional information about Exabyte and for sales, call 1-800-EXABYTE. For support and customer service, call 1-800-445-7736. Please call (+65)-271-6331 for Asia/Pacific and (+31)-30-2548800 for European inquiries. To have investor information faxed, call 201-946-0091, or download information from the investor relations' room on the company's Web site. For investor-related questions, please call 303-417-7511 or e-mail investor@exabyte.com. Visit Exabyte on the World Wide Web at www.exabyte.com and www.m2wins.com.

Exabyte is a registered trademark, and M2, MammothTape SmartClean, EZ17 and NetStorM are trademarks of Exabyte Corp. LTO and Ultrium are US registered trademarks of HP, IBM and Seagate. DLTtape is a trademark of Quantum Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.