SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - May 8, 2002 - BakBone Software™ (TSE: BKB), a global provider of storage management software announced today the appointment of Peter Eck as the company's new Vice President of Marketing. Eck comes to BakBone with more than seventeen years of senior management experience in the computer software industry delivering results for global companies including BMC Software, NCR, and AT&T. Eck will report directly to BakBone's President and CEO, Keith Rickard.

"As we advance to the next phase of our business growth, we felt it important to have an accomplished marketing leader with proven results to help us strengthen our position in the storage industry,” said Keith Rickard, BakBone's President and CEO. "Peter brings to BakBone the depth of experience and understanding critical for developing, designing, managing and deploying successful marketing programs."

Most recently, Eck served as Director of Marketing for BMC Software and was responsible for leading managers and teams in all marketing roles for BMC's PATROL Distributed Systems lines of business, including the Storage Management "Application Centric” software offerings.

"I'm thrilled to be joining BakBone Software as Vice President of Marketing," said Eck. "BakBone's technical excellence and innovation have produced truly outstanding products in the backup and restoration of data on networks. They are ideally positioned to succeed, and I'm delighted to be a part of Keith's team and executing on our strategy for revenue and profitability.”

A photo of Peter Eck is available upon request.

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.