Dying RAID holding all my referenced masters--how do I switch to my backup?

My five-drive, 10 TB primary RAID is flaking out; Disk Warrior reports a drive malfunction. It holds all of my referenced masters.
Fortunately, I have an identical backup RAID array (with a different volume name).
Can anyone tell me exactly how to "re-point" my Library to this backup RAID? The masters for about 500,000 of the 600,000 images in my Library are located on the failing RAID. The Library must now reference the backup masters on the backup RAID.
Thanks in advance
Gordon

Wes--this was basically RW Boyer's instructions. Where it gets fuzzy for me is Step 4.
After I rename the good RAID to the bad RAID name, I assume that I open Aperture.
Then what?
All of my Aperture files that are referenced to the bad raid are contained in two folders in Aperture: 2009 Images, and 2010 Images. Inside each of these folders are all of my projects for each year.
So do I highlight the 2009 Images folder, and then go to file, locate referenced file"? and then what? Or can I simply highlight the entire Library, and go to "file, locate referenced file", and let Aperture figure out which images are referenced on the new drive? There are several hundred thousand images in the 2009 and 2010 Images folders, and I need a quick way to reconnect to them all. As you can appreciate, I'm a bit reluctant to experiment.
Thanks

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