PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA - STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD - April 9, 2001 - BakBone Software™ (TSE: BKB, OTC: BKBOF), Inc., a global provider of storage software solutions, and Seagate Removable Storage Solutions (RSS), a leading manufacturer of computer tape drive and tape head products, today announced an OEM software bundle, under which Seagate will bundle a copy of BakBone's NetVault™ backup/restore software with its high performance Viper® 200 Ultrium tape drive and Viper 2000 autoloader sold through Seagate's resellers and authorized distributors.

Seagate officials said they chose to team-up/join with BakBone because of NetVault's demonstrated ability to handle backup loads with an unparalleled combination of power and ease of use. NetVault enables the award-winning Viper 200 drives to process data at a higher rate of throughput and efficiency than with any other software product available on the market today.

"The combination of NetVault and Viper 200 drives provide exceptional performance," said Brad Renfree, director of LTO Product Line Management for Seagate Removable Storage Solutions. "Companies seeking the higher performance of Ultrium-format LTO drives in their data storage topologies cannot afford to be slowed down by software that fails to meet their constantly growing demands. NetVault empowers our Viper drives to do the job they were designed to do, and make a tangible difference in the time it takes our customers to backup and restore their most important corporate-critical information."

"Before enterprises pay for a new tape drive, they want assurance that they will be able to extract full performance from it while performing their backup/restore operations," said David Hill, research director, Storage and Storage Management, Aberdeen Group. "The strong combination of Seagate's Viper LTO tape drive and BakBone's NetVault backup/restore software takes new steps toward providing the 'pay for performance' enterprises demand."

BakBone's NetVault represents a radical departure from software solutions offered by other firms, that require substantial upgrades and intensive technical support for companies seeking to grow their storage capabilities from direct-attached storage through network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SANs). It continues BakBone's tradition of offering software that combines powerful performance with unparalleled ease of use. In addition, the software is designed so that it can be installed within minutes or hours, instead of the days or weeks required by competing products.

"Seagate's LTO drives are enabling companies to move to the next level of data protection, through their ability to handle larger loads more quickly," said Barry Mattingly, BakBone's senior director, OEM Sales. "Powerful hardware demands powerful software with the ability to handle the tasks demanded of them. That's where NetVault comes in; working with Seagate's Viper drives and autoloaders, the combination enables people to feel more secure about getting the most from their investment. In today's rapidly changing storage environment, that's a message anyone can appreciate."

The NetVault/Viper drive bundle will be available in the first half of 2001 through Seagate's extensive network of value-added resellers and distributors or on the Internet at Seagate's online store for tape products at http://buytape.seagate.com.

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone Software™ (TSE: BKB, OTC: BKBOF) 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 core products include near-line optical and archival, as well as tape backup and restore software for a full suite of storage management solutions to the corporate data center.

BakBone's corporate headquarters is located at 10145 Pacific Heights Boulevard, San Diego, California 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 Seagate Removable Storage Solutions

With more than 10 million tape drives installed, Seagate Removable Storage Solutions (RSS) is a market leader in tape backup products and data protection solutions. Seagate RSS produces an extensive range of products designed to meet the backup needs of virtually every platform from notebooks, PCs and iMacs to enterprise servers. Seagate can be found around the globe and at www.seagate.com.

Seagate, along with fellow technology providers Hewlett-Packard and IBM, created Linear Tape-Open, or LTO, technology, as a new powerful, scaleable, open tape format to meet the growing demands of data protection in midrange to enterprise-class server environments. Viper® is the Seagate RSS product family based on LTO technology's Ultrium format. It includes the award-winning Viper® 200 tape drive, engineered as a best-in-class drive with the highest announced data transfer rate of up to 115.2 Gbytes per hour (compressed) and a compressed per-cartridge capacity of up to 200 Gbytes; Ultrium-format data cartridges; and Viper® 2000 autoloader. These products are currently shipping and available through resellers, VARs, and authorized distributors.

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Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Seagate logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC. Viper is a registered trademark of Seagate Removable Storage Solutions (RSS) LLC. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.Linear Tape-Open, LTO, Ultrium, and the Ultrium logo are U.S. trademarks of HP, IBM and Seagate.

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