SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - August 21, 2001 - BakBone Software™ (TSE: BKB, OTC: BKBOF), a global provider of storage management software, today announced that THOR-LO®, the world's largest maker of sports-specific athletic sockwear, has implemented BakBone's flagship backup/restore software solution NetVault™, to satisfy its rapidly growing business-critical data storage requirements. BakBone's NetVault addresses THOR-LO's storage requirements for multiple computer platforms, an exponential growth of information, and the need for speed in backing up and retrieving the information that enables THOR-LO to function smoothly.

With THOR-LO's computer network stretching over three sites in North Carolina including a manufacturing facility, a sales and marketing facility and a finishing facility, each site has its own unique data needs running SAP R/3 on a Windows NT network with an Oracle 8i database. Faced with the challenge of supporting a growing data storage load in an easy-to-use, time-efficient, cost-effective manner, THOR-LO implemented the NetVault solution.

"Two years ago our primary database was about 13 gigabytes; today, our production database alone is more than 170 gigabytes," said Jay Harris, THOR-LO's director of information technology. "NetVault has given us the assurance that the information we need to backup will be there when we need it, and that we can easily manage the process. Because NetVault will natively scale with our plans to ultimately implement a SAN/NAS storage environment, we expect to see a positive return on our investment."

From the workgroup to the enterprise, BakBone's NetVault provides customers with a scalable, high-speed storage management solution for maximum data protection, recovery and storage. NetVault combines power with ease of use throughout the entire product lifecycle, from installation and operation through scalability and support. NetVault is designed to meet the needs of networked storage in heterogeneous environments including support for the full range of topologies, ranging from direct-attached to network-attached storage (NAS), storage area networks (SANs) and IP storage.

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone Software™ (TSE: BKB, OTC: BKBOF) is an international storage management software company that develops and globally distributes high-performance software solutions to the network storage and open systems markets. BakBone's near-line archival and backup/restore software suites provide scalable data protection from the workgroup to the enterprise. Founded in 2000, BakBone Software's products are used by companies worldwide, and are distributed through a network of OEMs and solution providers. 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 (866) 484-2663, e-mail sales@bakbone.com, or access BakBone's web site at www.bakbone.com.

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