[General Paranoid Android Discussion] hlxanthus:
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I will say my gs4 has no issue with gapps backup and restore, not that I expected any with its wasted partition sizes

drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 0 Sep 26 18:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 0 Sep 26 18:25 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 26 18:25 boot
drwxrwx--- 5 system cache 4096 Dec 31 2012 cache
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 264012 Dec 31 1969 charger
drwxrwx--x 35 system system 4096 Sep 26 06:29 data
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4583 Dec 31 1969 default.prop
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4320 Sep 26 18:25 dev
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Sep 26 18:25 efs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 26 18:25 etc
drwxrwxrwx 11 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 external_sd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13701 Dec 31 1969 file_contexts
-rw-r----- 1 root root 953 Dec 31 1969 fstab.goldfish
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1251 Dec 31 1969 fstab.qcom
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 162804 Dec 31 1969 init
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 6737 Dec 31 1969 init.qcom.class_core.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 2755 Dec 31 1969 init.qcom.class_main.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 5591 Dec 31 1969 init.qcom.early_boot.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 5142 Dec 31 1969 init.qcom.lpm_boot.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 4576 Dec 31 1969 init.qcom.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 3074 Dec 31 1969 init.qcom.syspart_fixup.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 8759 Dec 31 1969 init.qcom.usb.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 2642 Dec 31 1969 init.rc
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 1690 Dec 31 1969 init.recovery.qcom.rc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 license
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2988 Dec 31 1969 lpm.rc
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Sep 26 18:25 modem
dr-xr-xr-x 168 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 proc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2244 Dec 31 1969 property_contexts
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 26 18:25 recovery
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 res
drwx------ 2 root root 0 Sep 12 09:54 root
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 0 Sep 26 18:25 sbin
drwxrwx--- 28 media_rw media_rw 4096 Sep 25 09:40 sdcard
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 736 Dec 31 1969 seapp_contexts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91601 Dec 31 1969 sepolicy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 supersu
dr-xr-xr-x 12 root root 0 Sep 26 18:25 sys
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Sep 25 09:39 system
drwxrwxr-x 2 root shell 80 Sep 26 18:25 tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 272 Dec 31 1969 ueventd.goldfish.rc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6919 Dec 31 1969 ueventd.qcom.rc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5897 Dec 31 1969 ueventd.rc
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Sep 26 18:25 usb-otg
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw,seclabel)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,seclabel,relatime)
selinuxfs on /sys/fs/selinux type selinuxfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,seclabel,relatime)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p29 on /data type ext4 (rw,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p29 on /sdcard type ext4 (rw,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 on /cache type ext4 (rw,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 on /external_sd type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p16 on /system type ext4 (rw,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered)
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 926104 80 926024 0% /dev
tmpfs 926104 20 926084 0% /tmp
/dev/block/mmcblk0p29
10059064 3114156 6944908 31% /data
/dev/block/mmcblk0p29
10059064 3114156 6944908 31% /sdcard
/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
2086312 36424 2049888 2% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 30686544 8937952 21748592 29% /external_sd
/dev/block/mmcblk0p16
2781840 741088 2040752 27% /system