POOLE, UNITED KINGDOM - July 10, 2002 - BakBone Software™ (TSE: BKB), a global provider of storage management software, announced today that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Dupaco Distribution BV who will distribute BakBone's award-winning backup and recovery software, NetVault, throughout the Netherlands/Benelux area.

"We felt that our NetVault product would make an admirable fit into Dupaco's storage product portfolio and we look forward to working closely with Dupaco and their resellers to continue to develop the NetVault brand in the Netherlands/Benelux area.” commented Martin van Pijkeren, sales manager for Benelux at BakBone. "NetVault is gaining market share and is becoming more accepted as a viable alternative to other, more established, names in the storage market. We intend to capitalise further on this by distributing the product through Dupaco.”

"One of Dupaco's greatest advantages is its thorough understanding of its vendors and their products.” explains Laurens ten Hagen, sales manager at Dupaco. "We see BakBone as a great product to complement Dupaco's current offerings and are excited to be able to offer NetVault to our reseller base who will be able to generate new areas of business, as companies seek to grow their data storage capabilities.”

Price and Availability

NetVault is immediately available from newly BakBone-certified distributor, Dupaco, and their network of resellers in a variety of modular and packaged solutions with configurations to satisfy virtually every network storage requirement, from the workgroup to the enterprise. Pricing begins at begins at $395 for an NT or Linux server package and at $695 for a similar package running on UNIX.

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone Software™ (TSE: BKB, OTC: BKBOF) is an international storage management software company that develops and globally distributes industry-leading storage management solutions to the Hammer systems markets, providing data protection and management solutions scalable from office to enterprise that will grow with a company's needs.

BakBone's NetVaultTM storage management software is designed to provide unparalleled robustness, and unmatched data protection and recovery to meet the challenges of today's computing infrastructures. NetVault's comprehensive but easy to use features include versatile modular design, advanced SAN support and specialised on-line application backup. The very core of the product is designed with high bandwidth data transfers in mind and designed to ensure that performance is not compromised.

BakBone's corporate headquarters is located at 10145 Pacific Heights Boulevard, San Diego, Ca. 92121 with European headquarters in Poole, UK. 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 01202 241000, e-mail sales_europe@bakbone.com, or access BakBone's web site at www.bakbone.com.

The Toronto Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the information contained herein.

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