Upgrades to Debian Bullseye

September 16, 2021

Debian 11 (Bullseye) Upgrades #

Starting September 16, 2021, I will begin the process of upgrading the Debian 10 (Buster) machines on my network to Debian 11 (Bullseye).

Bullseye was released a little over a month ago now, on August 14, 2021¹. With it came several new updates to software packages that are used extensively on my systems. In an attempt to keep up and avoid deprecation, I will be taking the opportunity to upgrade all my Buster systems to Bullseye. I plan to have this complete by the end of the week AT THE LATEST.

Expect downtime to the following services based on the system they are running on:

mgmt-server         Public-facing Jumpbox
soper-box           Bitwarden, Nextcloud, Gitea, home.soper.xyz, sope.cc, up.soper.xyz
minecraft-server    Minecraft Servers
upload-box          up.soper.xyz
steam-server        Steam-related Game Servers (Valheim, Ark, etc.)
raspberrypi         VPN, DNS/DHCP

I will keep this document updated.

Update Log #

9/16 #

Begun the process of updating and testing update process.

• 18:15: upload-box (host of https://up.soper.xyz) has successfully been upgraded to Debian 11.
• 20:02: mc.soper.xyz (main Minecraft server) is no longer 24/7, and has been turned off to facilitate the upgrade of the server to Debian 11.
• 20:35: minecraft-server has successfully been upgraded to Debian 11.
• 20:39: Began process of upgrading mgmt-server to Debian 11.
• 20:47: mgmt-server has successfully been upgraded to Debian 11.
• 20:59: Began process of upgrading steam-server to Debian 11.
• 21:06: steam-server has successfully been upgraded to Debian 11.
• 21:22: Began process of upgrading soper-box to Debian 11.
• 21:45: soper-box has successfully been upgraded to Debian 11. Because of the importance of this specific server to the integrity of the network, this server will be under heavy scrutiny until reliability is confirmed.

All servers have successfully been upgraded to Debian 11 with no real issue. Servers will be monitored in the coming days to ensure stability.

11/11 #

It has been almost two months since all servers (excluding my Raspberry Pi) were updated. I have had no real issues, other than performance issues with Samba. I’d like to think this means that this was successful, and all servers should be production stable for the time being until I lose power since I’m too inept to invest in a UPS.