POOLE, UNITED KINGDOM - December 12, 2002 - BakBone Software, a global provider of storage management software, announced today that its flagship backup and recovery software NetVault has been validated by SuSE AG as part of the SuSE Software Technology Partner Program.

This validation solidifies BakBone's long-standing commitment to the Linux community. NetVault's core architecture has provided superior device support and central management of the backup domain for Linux. By joining the SuSE Technology Partner Program, BakBone is expanding its presence in the Linux marketplace and gains access to SuSE's global marketing and sales programs, technology road maps and developer support solutions.

"SuSE is the market leader in Linux in Germany, the fastest growing platform within today's enterprise environments," said Andrew Unsworth, Managing Director EMEA, BakBone Software. "We are delighted to reach out to their growing customer base to offer NetVault, our high-speed, high-performance backup and restore solution that has already been proven in Linux installations around the world and to offer NetVault as the de-facto backup software standard on future installations of SuSE Linux Enterprise servers."

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 centralised environments, NetVault is able to operate in multi-vendor networks and supports a broad range of platforms, applications and high performance tape devices. Supporting both 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels, NetVault offers a simple, yet robust backup and recovery solution for most SuSE Linux operating system releases to-date, including Professional and Enterprise Editions. NetVault also offers a complete line of Application Plugin Modules (APMs) to support hot backup of SuSE Linux-based databases, such as mySQL, DB2, Lotus Notes Domino R5 and Oracle 9i.

About BakBone Software Inc.

BakBone Software 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 backup and restore software provides 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, with European headquarters in Poole, Dorset. Its stock is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. For more information on BakBone products, call 01202 241000, e-mail sales_europe@bakbone.com, or access BakBone's web site at www.bakbone.com.

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