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I fail to see your point. Every copy of a git repo is a full copy [1] - unlike a svn checkout. If you follow a centralized server model with git you have a copy on the server and every workstation it is checked out on. With svn, the full repo only exists on the server. Why couldn't you have a redundant, backed up central git server?

[1] Not a substitute for real backups of your repo!

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Whenever people talk about git, they seem to talk about how you can have all of these working copies locally. My concern is the frequency with which code would be published to the centralized server and possible loss if all of the working copies were to disappear.

Admittedly, this is a bigger problem in svn if you aren't using branches for work-in-progress.

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