RESTORE VERIFYONLY Different behavior in SQL 2000 and SQL 2005

You have a RESTORE VERIFYONLY option in both SQL 2000 and SQL 2005. But it has different behavior in SQL 2000 and SQL 2005. In 2000 what VERIFYONLY do is, it will check the media header and then returned a success or an error. The entire backup set could be invalid, and every other sector on the media could be bad. But aslong as the media header was intact, it would return a success. So this behavior effectively rendered this command worthless in SQL 2000.I would tell in sql 2000 you should not use this command. However, SQL Server2005 now performs the necessary checks, so you should execute this command every time you perform a backup.