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October 17, 2001

BakBone Ships NetVault Version 6.5 with Powerful New Capabilities for Disaster Recovery, Open File Management and Disk Virtualization.

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - October 17, 2001 - BakBone Software™ (TSE: BKB), a global provider of storage management software, announced today the immediate availability of NetVault 6.5, the latest version of its flagship modular backup and recovery software for networked storage environments. With more than thirty new features, NetVault v6.5 highlights new Application Plugin Modules (APMs ) for disaster recovery and open file management, as well as its industry-leading, extremely robust disk virtualization capabilities.

NetVault 6.5 New Key Features:

VaultDR™ APM allows companies to recover from disk failures without having to manually re-install the base operating system. VaultDR APM offers bare metal recovery for Intel-based operating systems and is the only heterogeneous bare metal restore solution on the market. VaultDR also includes the VaultOS mini-kernel that supports the most popular NIC and SCSI card drivers, along with the ability to create bootable media.
Open File Manager™ APM enables managers to successfully capture and restore files that are open or in use during the backup process in addition to all other files. The Open File Manager APM supports both block level and file level backup and restore and provides the ability to synchronize single or multiple volumes concurrently. All NetVault APMs offer simple point and click installation from a single centralized management console.
Disk Virtualization allows managers to create, delete or expand virtual drives or libraries from physical disk storage from a single centralized NetVault domain console without network downtime.

NetVault is built upon an advanced modular architecture that provides IT managers the flexibility for growth and continued enhancement as companies' information storage needs expand and change. With an intuitive and easy-to-use GUI delivering enterprise-wide control in both distributed and centralized environments, NetVault is able to operate in multi-vendor networks and supports a broad range of platforms, applications and high performance tape devices.

"How companies store and recover their data is increasingly important to their ability to grow, increase profitability and ultimately optimize their position in the market," said Mike Johnson, Director of Product Management, BakBone Software. "With client load-balancing and alternate IP fail-over capabilities, the new release of NetVault 6.5 enables us to offer our customers increased interoperability and performance without the complexity often associated with growth. NetVault is a powerful asset that provides IT management with an extremely rapid return on investment."

Pricing and Availability:

NetVault 6.5 is available now on UNIX, Linux, NT and Windows 2000 platforms. Pricing starts at $695.

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone Software™ (TSE: BKB) 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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The statements contained in this press release that are not historical in nature are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees since there are inherent difficulties in predicting future results, and actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements.

BakBone Software, the BakBone logo, NetVault, Application Plug-in Modules, VaultDR, and APM are all trademarks or registered trademarks of BakBone Software, Inc., in the United States and/or in other countries. All other brands, products or service names are or may be trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of, and used to identify, products or services of their respective owners.

NetVault 6.5 Endorsed!

"Caldera's UNIX and Linux focus harmonizes with the quality service and high performance BakBone's new release of NetVault 6.5 provides Caldera's customers," said Mike Ballengee, Vice President of Business Development, Caldera International. "BakBone's powerful storage solutions can meet our customers' rapidly growing storage needs today, as well as provide the scalability to meet future requirements."

"Committed to interoperability, Gadzoox Networks and BakBone Software have been working together to ensure their new products interoperate and offer the most benefits to customers," said Tony DiCenzo, director, alliance marketing, Gadzoox Networks. "BakBone Software's NetVault coupled with the Gadzoox Networks Slingshot family of switches work together to offer an easy to use solution for data back-up and recovery."

"With NetVault 6.5, Our mutual customers will definitely benefit from the advanced modular architecture that provides the flexibility for growth and continued enhancement as companies' information storage needs expand and change, said Duran Alabi, Director of Business Development and Marketing for JMR "It is our intention and focus as a storage management resources provider to work with partners, that have demonstrated proven ability to offer consumers what they need, this product enhancement from BakBone is no exception."

"Ease of installation and superior performance make BakBone's NetVault 6.5 solution a standout," said Francesca Harbert, strategic alliance manager at Nishan Systems, the world's first provider of native IP Storage solutions. "BakBone delivers one of the highest levels of information protection currently available, and Nishan Systems is pleased to offer its congratulations on the launch of this new version of NetVault."

"Overland and BakBone have an outstanding relationship in providing flexible solutions in complex computing environments," said Lee Payne, senior systems technology strategist, Overland Data (Nasdaq: OVRL). "Our product architectures are similar and enable users to configure modular solutions that fit their budget today, with the ability to re-use their investment to satisfy the needs of tomorrow. Overland and BakBone support all major platforms in non-stop direct-attached, LAN, SAN or NAS environments to offer maximum flexibility, performance and capacity. NetVault 6.5 includes new features such as disaster recovery and open file management, which are just a few user-friendly methods to maximize tape library performance. We are pleased to partner will BakBone to offer the market a great value for their I.T. investment."

"Plasmon has developed an easy to use series of LTO Tape Libraries to not only minimize IT management while data is being backed-up, but to provide customers with the scalability and flexibility to meet storage requirements today and in the future," said Kelly Scharf, Plasmon U.S. Director of Product Management. "Combining BakBone's latest storage management software and our V Series of Tape Libraries continues our commitment to offer the highest performing tape solution in its class."

"BakBone's advanced storage management software allow companies to streamline their data access and protection across IT environments. The sophisticated backup and recovery functions of NetVault 6.5 provide a valuable solution to the enterprise market," said Bob Covey, Vice President of Marketing, Qualstar Corporation.

"The new features of NetVault 6.5 are important to enterprise storage administrators," according to Gene Nagle, product line manager at Quantum|ATL. "Our common customers look to our companies to ensure the interoperability of each other's products as they evolve."

"As a tape library manufacturer, Spectra Logic supports BakBone in its continual movement toward advancing network storage software," said Lou Cicio, Spectra Logic director of product marketing. "Enabling companies the ability to maximize their backup and recovery storage management through improved software will simplify the network storage environment," he added.

"BakBone's NetVault 6.5 enables organizations to capitalize on and better utilize their storage investment. We are pleased to see BakBone deliver robust storage management offerings that help customers meet their storage and server network needs. NetVault 6.5 is a perfect complement to Vixel switches in SAN applications and their combination provides ease of use and configuration to our end-users," said Dr. Claude Lorenson, Director of Product Marketing at Vixel Corporation.

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