SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - October 9, 2001 - BakBone Software™ (TSE: BKB), a global provider of storage management software, announced today the availability of the VaultDRä Application Plugin Moduleä (APMä), a new disaster recovery APM that provides complete bare-metal recovery capabilities for Intel-based operating system platforms. The VaultDR APM allows users to recover from disk failures without having to manually re-install the base operating system. The VaultDR APM includes VaultOSä mini-kernel and supports the most popular NIC and SCSI card drivers, along with a utility for the creation of boot floppies.

"Disaster recovery software is an important capability for any IT manager or user who manages routine backup procedures," said Mike Johnson, BakBone's Director of Product Management. "In the event of a disaster, VaultDR provides complete bare-metal recovery of all your disk partition contents, including your operating system, patches and service packs. VaultDR also works in conjunction with our NetVaultä backup and restore software to provide data protection, scaling from the workgroup to the enterprise."

BakBone's complete line of NetVault APMs ensure continuous data availability by providing fast, on-line backup and recovery for many business applications, such as DB2, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, SQL and SAP. NetVault's modular architecture sets new standards in application backup support with simple point and click installation and seamless integration with application software. Local and remote client software installations and automatic client backup and restores can be easily administered across the network, all from one centralized management console.

Pricing & Availability:

The VaultDR APM is available now for all Intel-based platforms including FreeBSD, Linux, SCO UNIX, Solaris x86, Unixware, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and more. Pricing includes a one time server charge of $495 and an individual client-side license fee.

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.

Safe Harbor

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, VaultOS, 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.